The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS more famous than the PM?

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

No video today sorry guys - camera's aren't working!! We honestly thought Dan was the Zac Effron of his high school, but a brutal "Famous Alumni" list just put him in his place behind a drag queen and the Prime Minister. Plus, we’re spiraling over some heavy new stats about New Zealand's drug habits and debating if a "Yes Day" with the kids is actually a genius move or a total nightmare. You aren't ready for how awkward Clint's phone call to his old school gets! 00:00 – The brutal Mt Roskill Grammar famous alumni list. 01:45 – Is Dan more famous than Christopher Luxon?. 03:10 – Clint calls his old high school to check his own status. 05:45 – The search for billionaire Graham Hart. 07:20 – NZ's shocking cocaine and meth statistics. 08:15 – Why Northland has the highest meth use. 09:30 – Jennifer Garner’s pasta sauce and the "Yes Day". 11:10 – The rules of a "Yes Day" for parents.

This is a podcast from Rover. Thank you, good and welcome. Your host, Clint Meag and Dan. We have an update from yesterday's podcast. We do. If you actually missed the show podcast, then you wouldn't have heard this. But we got too excited. We played it there.

Yes, I mean, I know. It feels like we're cheating on you because we're talking about the whole thing about how Dan's the Zach in front of his high school. Would they remember him? And so on yesterday's podcast, we called his old high school, spoke to Sam, she said, oh look, she'll try to get a list to us. How at college? Yeah, Meg got the list and we got so excited we did it on the show

this morning. Yeah, yeah, and it was very satisfying to read. It was. Shall we relive that moment? I've got a two-minute highlight here. Ah, if you want to. Okay, Meg had the list. It was a top eight list of the most famous people out of Dan's High School. She started reading from the bottom. Amelia Wormsey, current silver fern.

Right. Never. You're an asshole if you don't believe. Oh, I've heard of her. Yeah, now you say it. Silverfern. Steve Gurney, multi-sport and triathlon athlete. Oh, yeah, how I've heard of you.

Incredible, though. That's what I'm saying about how alcoholics. They've done amazing things. Yes, yes, yes, yes, good. Christopher Luxon, current Prime Minister. He went to Dan's high school? Yeah, he went to Dan's high school. He's number three on the list and he runs the country.

Don't like him. Ketamine, winner of Rupoo Poole's Drake Race Down Under. Really? Really? I did not know that. Incredible, incredible list. The fact that you don't know these people into your school does not boat.

well for you finishing in a top eight because you didn't know there were this many. Look, I don't know if they did an order, but it was in a list. And the fact that I'm not, I haven't featured yet. Christopher Lux and the Prime Minister of the country already have. I'd be very surprised if I'm higher. It's only four spots left. Amber Peoples, New Zealand TV host, winner of Miss World 2004. Now, let's be honest, yes, she's been around, but what has she done recently?

Paris Goebel, which she already knows. We all know. Corrographs for the likes of Beyonce and Rihanna. Tex Edwards. Two degrees founder, which is incredible. Founded two degrees? Yes. My goodness.

Okay. Oh my. You went to the same school as these people. There's no way they're going to remember you. Stop the list. How many are left? One more is left. Your shoe.

Number one above Christopher Lundon. Number one. Dan Williamson. Olympic old meddlist. Dan Williamson. You actually thought it was you. You thought it was you above the Prime Minister. Look at him.

Wait. I bet Barry Scarborough. Are you going to go back? I do say that. But he's more famous than the Olympians than the silver fans. You're honest to God thought she was going to say Webby. Who's what's his name? Dan Williamson.

I genuinely text her if you've heard of him. I was just thinking I could have stretched out weirlemson. Then it would have been more obvious. No, I think you delivered that perfectly. Good on it. Dan stood up midway through the name read as if, like, ready for his course. Wow, you know, and that's why I'm about to hate call him. Mount Roscold.

I had Anna Pac-Wan. There you go, Clint, the floor is yours, big boy. Welcome to Mount Ruskell Grammar School. I'm not asking for myself. Hours of Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you know the extension you require, please press 1. Just for zero as you happens. Here, I'm out of Mount Ruscoe Grammar School.

Yeah, hi, it's Clinton here. Who am I speaking with? Corrine. Hey, Karin. I used to go to Mount Roscoll Grammar School back in the day. I now do a radio show with Meg and Dan. And Dan, who I work with, used to say that he was the Zacifron of his high school. And so we ended up getting the high high note to laugh, isn't it?

Humble? Yeah, right? And so we ended up getting a list from the school of the most famous people that have ever gone there. And surprise, surprise, Dan did not feature on it. Christopher Luxon, a few silver. A few silver ferns did. Even Paris Gable. They didn't look at Dan Zackafron.

That's what they should have done, actually. Even Paris Gobel was done choreographer for Beyonce, you know, she was mentioned. So he had a few famous people go to school. I went to Mount Roscold Grammar, and now these guys are wondering who the most famous people that came out of Mount Roscoll Grammar would be and want to see if I can get a list. Who would be the person who would know any sort of notable

alumni that would have been at Marrow School Grammar back in the day that have gone on to do great things. Let me just see the most famous, Russell Crow. Oh, Russell, now that's a big name. Hooy, oy, oy, oy. Big. Wow, it's going to be tough to be. Russell, all right. Does she, anyone else that comes to mind off the top of her head?

There's an artist, Gretchen Albridge. Okay. Hi, yes, yeah. I'm looking around at Arborah. Yeah. Okay. Alright, so that's two. Anybody asked from the arts and entertainment world, maybe.

Sam Lowe from Mastership? Sam Lowe from Mastership? Sam Lowe. Okay, on TV. Anyone else? Anyone else? Anyone else? Sorry, we're just racking our brains. Wrecking our brains. No, I would say that's... If you can't think of anyone, that would be...

I'm just racking a brain. I've actually googled it now we're talking about it. I have notable alumni from the college. Do you mind if I put beer in hold? Yeah, sure. Of course. Yeah, keep racking. away, put us in a hold and just keep racking

your brain. Thank you. Okay, one moment. Ask the entertainment. Alana Curry, she's one of the Thompson twins, not the top twins. They're the second famous of the most twin duo. Gretchen Albert, which she said, the artist,

Nalini Singh, an author, Mark's staff of broadcaster, no Clinton Randall. Surprises me, you'd think you'd be on there. Russell Crow, I mean, I didn't know idea where you'd have to say my school. To be here, on the list I'm looking at Russell Crow's not on it. So maybe they have a...

Is he just visited? He didn't study there. Graham Hart went there? Oh yeah, Graham Hart. The billionaire. Yeah, Graham Hart's good. Yeah, Graham Hart's good. 20-something billion dollars or whatever he's worth.

He's still wrecking their brains. They're still wrecking their brains. They are wracking their brains. But neither is Russell Crow, to be fair. Yeah, Graham Hart. Jeez. They are racking their brains. They're going, Jesus.

Now, hold on, come on. We're talking with the fact you even call. I'm sorry. I don't know anyone. I'm actually new here. No, no, that's fine. We did a quick Google. Graham Hart went there.

Do you know who he is? Graham Hart, yeah. Yeah, the billionaire. And then it says on this list of Clinton Randall went there. Have you heard of him? Clinton Randall, haven't heard of him. Brilliant. That's all we needed.

We all know Graham Hart. Thank you for your time today. Have a great afternoon. Thanks, mate. Thank you, too. See you. Incredible. Brilliant.

That's almost more embarrassing. That is more embarrassing. You were right in front of their noses and they still didn't get you. You were begging. Go ahead. Please, please. She was new there. I just read a story the other day that said that renting is good at the moment

because the houses aren't going up as much as they were. So if you can't afford to buy a house at the moment, Obviously, you should buy a house if you can, but don't be ashamed if we're renting at the moment because the house prices aren't inflating that much. I also read that cocaine has taken over MDMA as drug of choice in New Zealand. Nine kilos of cocaine gets consumed a week in New Zealand. And is that around your house in Sandra Hemmel or not?

Yeah, that's just up close. Do they check the waterways near your place? I thought nine kilos was a lot, but then supposedly in New Zealand we consume as a country 38 kilos of meth a week. That is a lot of meth. 30 something. It was 35 or 38. It was around there.

I'm so naive to all of these things because it's just not, you know, I think a lot of the, I just sit there and I almost think, what and how is that real? Meth is in Coke is that bad a problem in New Zealand. I'm just too much of a baby and too naive to actually think that people

are just taking meth on the daily. In New Zealand. Where do you think people consume the most meth? I heard it was Fangare. Really? Yeah, last time I heard. I don't know if it still is, but there was a time

where Fangare was the worst for meth. Based on recent wastewater analyst data, the Northland region has the highest per capita methamphetamine consumption. Which is sad. And if you go up there, you can almost tell. Why?

When you drive through, there's a couple of suburbs that you drive through and you're like, oh, really? No, no, not the people. I just mean like you drive through and you're like, goodness me,

there's some... That's a real shame. I really like Fangare. I've been there twice for like a staycation. and model, you know, just a little mini holiday with Guy and I really, really loved it there. I wanted to buy a house there. You know, if you see in Fangaday,

there's the new bill that's been there for five years or so. Now that new art building in the central town, it's beautiful. It's actually really crazy and crazy to look at, but it's an amazing piece of architecture. It's like this tree house. That looks like a tree house. That guy booked for me for our 30th birthday,

my 30th birthday. And we thought we'd made Daisy there because we had so much sex. We didn't. that tree no longer exists it fell down the night they left they rocked it off its roots and they rooted it out of its root

waypukaro or wai Pukarau depending on if you're talking to recorded the biggest increase in meth consumption in the country it went up 333% over the last year or two and the highest uses of cocaine in New Zealand

are Aucklanders of course it is Yeah, and the Bay of Plenty identified as having some of the highest use as well. All those Oakland, wankers, eh? Auckland and Bay of Plenty. So Dan's been seeing the House Pryor. I've been seeing drug stats. What are you being seeing, on my?

What stats are you looking at, Meg? Jennifer Garner released a really nice pasta sauce. Did she? It's a good recipe I used it the other night. Can you buy it? No, no, I made it. Oh, right, sorry, she's released the recipe. The recipe, sorry, no, no.

Was it good? It was genuinely one of the best pasta sources. Jennifer Garner. What's she doing? Really easy. It was good. What's she doing apart from pasta sauces now? Is that all she's doing?

She's doing stuff. Doing pastors. Yeah. She was the chicken yesterday. Elias and yesterday. Yes day, which are my kids love a yes day. Pretty much you get to ask what if you want. We have to say yes as parents.

Hall pastors, Junifigana. Really? Really? I think she is one of the most boring individuals I've ever seen. Oh, she's just lovely. He thinks she's just a wonderful woman. And she seems nice. She's good to.

a kid she cooks. That's his type. Have you ever done a yesterday for your kids? No, she's four, so I don't know yet, but maybe we're getting into the right sort of age. Yeah, I think there's a few rules in the movie that we adhere to as well. You can't ask for something that's outside of like a 30 kilometre radius, so you can't be like, I want to go to Australia there, right? Because something...

She wouldn't think that she'll go, I want to make fart noises or something. Yeah, she's allowed to do that then. You're not allowed to ask for money. And it's kind of like the genie. You can't wish for more wishes and you can't wish something. Have you asked for a yesterday from your wife? Yep. She said no?

Yep. Right. Can I ask for something? Which goes against the rules of the yesterday. Why just been it? Is it a yesterday? Why? Yesterday.

It's 20 minutes. We're not allowed to go past that? No, no, no, no. They said 20 minutes. Oh, yeah. Okay, shit. I don't know. When was the last time you did a yes day?

Probably late last year. Kids get like one or two a year. They waste it because they go, can we go on screens? Yeah, man. And then they just waste two hours. And you go, can you watch it? Yeah, well, it's yesterday, yes, watch it. They want to go to Rainbow's End a lot.

They pull that card. And then it's like, I'm guessing like marshmallows and ice cream for dinner. Yep, yep, that's what they want. When they go on the log flim, yes. Yeah, we're at Rainbow's End, so yes. It's not your yesterday, Dan. That would be yours. That would be, I'll just stay on the log clip.

I'll go, just leave me here. I'll just stay on it. What's the best thing to ask for? I'll utilise a yes day if you get given one as an adult. For me? Can I be left alone in a cold room with air conditioning? in room service. Yeah?

That's mine. And that's it. Of all the wishes you can have. Yeah, right now, all I want to be doing is left alone in a room. You're in a room pretty much now. You're living your dream. No, to be quiet. I don't want anyone around me.

I just want to lie on a bed. You barely notice we're here half the time. Yeah, we're so quiet. Sometimes Dan just comes in the breaks and just stands around my side of the desk and then goes, do you think you're funny, huh? And she goes, yes, and I go, good on you. and I walk back to my side of the desk and so I picked her up there

What would you do, Clint? I'm just trying to think I would say I would go Take me to a racetrack Racing, like a racing car track And give me the best, like the coolest car And I can use it for two days an hour Two hours, two hours Two days an hour

Two hours You're getting too excited Yeah two hours I go to a racetrack somewhere Is that what you can do with a yes day? Yeah, what is it on? Yeah, so like I go to a hour a racetrack, two hours on a racetrack with a cool car race round. That'd be my dream. Just for two

hours? Okay, all day then. If it's a yes day, I'll go all day. Clint's just sex. Clint's just hooked up to some sort of sex macheteer. This is the Overthinkers podcast.